By Sam Bodrojan
With this adaptation of Colson Whiteheads Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, filmmaker RaMell Ross delivers 2024’s most harrowing and transcendent film.
A rousing, noble misstep from Barry Jenkins, in which the paw-print of this great filmmaker is too light to make out.
By Rógan Graham
Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winner is a nuanced small-screen masterwork.
In the director’s ambitious Amazon miniseries, the network for escaped slaves takes on a more literal form.
A staggering number of upcoming projects were revealed this week, set to be rolled out over the next decade.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker will go from Harlem to Pride Rock.
Our latest print edition brings together two of life’s foremost pleasures.
Leonardo DiCaprio is also producing the narrative adaptation of the film Virunga.
The Oscar-nominated cinematographer is developing a feature based on a script by Barry Jenkins.
Fox Searchlight backs the movie treatment of the influential African-American dancer’s life.
By Luís Azevedo
This new video essay explores the director’s evocative use of colour, from Medicine for Melancholy to If Beale Street Could Talk.
The Moonlight director sits down to pick apart his wonderful James Baldwin adaptation, If Beale Street Could Talk.
Intense melancholy and blissful romance mask an undercurrent of political outrage in Barry Jenkins’ rhapsodic take on James Baldwin.
For our first edition of 2019 we dive into Barry Jenkins’ extraordinary adaptation of James Baldwin.
Our annual countdown of the movies that made the biggest impression on us this year, from Hereditary to The House That Jack Built.
The director’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Moonlight is based on James Baldwin’s classic novel.
Barry Jenkins’ faithful adaptation of James Baldwin’s heartbreaking love story is pure cinematic poetry.
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